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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

W. KAUFMAN.

QHUTTER WORKER.

No. 262,789. Patented Aug. 15, 1882.

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SHUTTER WORKER. No. 262,789. Patented Aug. 15, 1882.

WlTNESSES l EN OR Q4 ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES WILLIAM KAUFMAN, or NEWYORK, N.-Y.

SHUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,789, dated August15, 1882. Application filed February 7, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern BeitknownthatLWILLIAMKAUFMAN,acitizen of theUnited States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York andState of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful ImprovementsinShutter-Workers; andIdo hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersor figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 represents a vertical sectional view of my improvedshutter-worker. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal sectional view ofthesame, and Fig. 3 is a detail view.

This invention has relation to shutter-workers; and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement of the thin plate lever and itsconnection with the blind, the rubber weather packing through which thelever works, the set-screw, and the set-screw bearing-plate attached to'the lever, all as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the windowsill,and B the bead- Inolding on the inside margin of the same.

=0 represents the lower sash, having a small recess, a, cut in its underside, through which the operating-lever passes. This recess is of lessheight than the head 13, and is closed thereby when the sash is down.

E indicates the blind or shutter.

F represents the operating-lever, .which is made of thin plate metallaterally curved, as indicated in the drawings. The lever is providedwith a fulcrum hearing or aperture, I), which is seated on the upper endof the fulcrumbolt c, which extends upward through the sill, near orunder the sash, and is providcd with a nut, d, which holds the lever onthe fulcrum. When the nut is taken off the lever can be at once removed.

G designates a curved thin metal connecting-plate, which is pivoted byits inner end to the end of thedever, as at e, and is connected to theblind by means of a bolt, g, passing I through this end and throughperforated lugs h, fastened in the lower part of the blind.

- In order to prevent the entrance of wind, rain, or snow into theapartment through the slot k, which is made between the sill and thebead for the passage of the end of the operating-lever, aweather-packing, H, of rubber, is employed. This strip of rubber islongitudinally and horizontally slit at lto afford passage for thelever, and is confined by its upper and lower portions in recessed seatsm in the sill and bead.

To the handle end K of the lever, under the head, is pivoted a shorttransverse plate, L, which moves laterallyin the way to, under the bead.

S represents a set screw, which extends through the bead-molding, and isdesigned, when turned down, to engage the lever or its bearing-plate L,thereby holding said lever in any position in which it may be placed bythe adjustment of the blind, and consequently holding the latter inposition.

A lever movable transversely through the wall of the house below thelevel of the bottom of the blind has been provided with a rubberpacking, by means of which regularity of movement is secured to thelever and cold air WILLIAM KAUFMAN. Witnesses:

' LOUIS N. DONNA'IIN,

JAMEs K. VAN BRUNT.

